Drying cabinet



Dec. 13, 1927.

C. C. MOORE DRYING CABINET Filed May 3l, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VEN TOR. I

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Dec. 13, 1927.

C. C. MOORE DRYING CABINET Filed May 51. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN VEN TOR.

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Patented Dec. 13, 1927.

UNITED STATES CHAFFIN C. MOORE, OF WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA.

' DRYING CABINET.

Application filed May 31,

This invention relates to an improved drying cabinet made of fireproof material, and more especially to a drying cabinet in which the air is circulated properly in the cabinet without the necessity of forcing the air by a fan or other means.

An object of my invention is to provide a drying cabinet for clothing and the like in which the air is so circulated as to dry the clothing uniformly, and with the parts so positioned as to dry the upper portions of the garments within the same length of time required for drying the lower parts of the garments.

Another object of my invention is to provide a clothes drying cabinet with the parts so positioned as to automatically circulate the air within the cabinet as to dry the clothes uniformly, and in which there are arranged a series of baffle plates and partitions to cause the air to be forced automatically to the desired portions of the garments in the desired heated state to dry all portions of the garments evenly and uniformly.

Some of the objects of my invention having been stated, other objects will appear when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my drying cabinet;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of my drying cabinet with the side removed for a better showing of the interior thereof.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the numeral indicates the bottom of my cabinet while the end portions are designated by the numerals 11 and 12. The numerals 13 and 14 indicate the side wall portions of my cabinet. The ba-flie plates 15 and 16 are secured to the end portions by means of the brackets 17, and are spaced some distance from the end portions, but are posi tioned vertically and parallel to the end wall portions, leaving a space therebetween. These baffle plates have the horizontally disposed portions 18 and 19, which portions are spaced from the bottom 10, and are held in place by the brackets 20. Parallel with the end wall portions and secured to the bottom member 10, is the member 21, which extends all the way across the bottom of the cabinet, and has its top portion'extending some distance above the plane of the horizontal portions 18 and 19 of the baffle plates.

Resting on this member 21, and extending 1927. Serial No. 195,429.

from one battle plate 15 to the other bafile plate 16 is the plate member 22, said plate member abutting against the baffle plates and the side wall portions of the cabinet. A plurality of square holes therein thru which sections 23 of the system of pipes 24 project, occur in the plate 22, and these holes also serve to regulate the flow of the currentsof air in the drying cabinet. Brackets 25 are secured to the bottom member 10 and project upwardly for the support of the pipes. Portions of the pipes are below the plate 22, and portions thereof are located above the plate 22, as shown in the drawmgs. Shutters 26 are located in the end portions 11 and 12 by means of which the amount of fresh air which is taken into the cabinet is regulated. The baflie plates extend upwardly, parallel to the end portions, and stop short of the upper ends of the end wall portions. The top portion 27 is secured to the side and end portions, and a plate member 28, of the same size as the interior of the cabinet is secured to the end and side wall portions, and this plate 28 has its mid-. dle portion lowered, so as to have a trough like appearance when looked on from above. A vent or pipe member 29 penetrates the top 27 and the plate 28 and extends downwardly some distance into the interior of the cabinet to prevent the hot air from escaping from the upper portion of the cabinet, the reason being that many garments have their upper portions of double thickness, and this causes the upper portion of the cabinet to be warmer than the lower portion, and thus the tops of the garments are subjected to more heat, so that the tops of the garments will be dried by the time r the lower portions of the garments are dried.

Rod members 30 and 31 are secured to the ends of the cabinet or to the baffle plates on which suitable clothing holders, such as coat hangers, may be placed.

One of the sides of the cabinet has a suitable door 32, to permit access to the interior of the cabinet.

The pipes are adapted to hold steam or hot water for heating the interior of the cabinet, and when heat is generated, air currents are set up which flow upward in the center of the cabinet where they strike the depressed false top, where the air currents are divided, and one half of them flow upward and outward towards the end walls, thence downward between the end walls and the battle plates, thence between the bottom and the horizontal portion of the balile plates, and thence upward thru the holes in the member 22, and in this way, the air is cireulated.

; ployed, they are used in a generic and descriptive .sense only, and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the appended claims.

- I claim:

7 1. A clothes drying cabinet having four Walls, a bottom and top, baffle plates securec to the end wall portions, and having a portion thereof extending parallel to the bottom, a false bottom member secured above the horizontal portion of the baffle plates, a plurality of holes in the false bottom, a system of pipes in the cabinet with a portion of the said system being above the holes, and a portion of the said system of pipes being disposed below the false bottom, and supporting means for the system of pipes, the baffle plates, and the false bottom.

. 2. In a drying cabinet, a system of steam -pipes in the lower portion of the cabinet, a

' false bottom in the drying cabinet, a portion .of the steam pipes being above the false bottom, vertically disposed members secured to the end wall portions and being spaced from the end wall portions, a false top member in the drying cabinet, the central portion of the false top member being disposed in a lower ually upward from the central plane than the end portions of the false top member, the false top member sloping gradend portions thereof. 3. In a clothes drying cabinet, bathe plates portion to the secured in spaced relation from the end wall portions of the cabinet, a sheet member horizontally disposed in spaced relation from the bottom member holes in the sheet member, a system of heat conveying pipes positioned below the sheet thereof extending upwardly thru the holes and returning to a point below the sheet member, a second sheet member secured in the upper portion of the cabinet," said second sheet member having its central portion disposed in a lower plane than the end members thereof, a vent extending downwardly thru the top of the cabinet and thin the second sheet member to a point below the second sheet member, and means in the upper portion of the cabinet for supporting garments during the drying operation.

member and having portions 4. In a drying cabinet, having top, bottom and wall portions, a flattened V-shape'd, false top member secured in the top of the cabinet, a partition extending across the bottom of the cabinet at a point corresponding to the lowest portion of the top false member, baffle plates secured to the end wall portions so as to leave a space between the battle plates and the end wall portion, said baflie plates extending inwardly towards each other in the same horizontal plane as the bottom member so as to leave a space between the extensions and the bottom member, a false bottom member secured about the bafile plate extensions and resting on the partition, a plurality of holes in the bottom member and a steam pipe linehaving portions thereof extending up through theholes of the bottom members, with other portionsthereof extending below the bottom members, and

.means in the top of the cabinet forsupport- 111g garments during the drying operation.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

.GHAFFIN o. Moons 

